Pelvic sling application: the demonstrators look like they’re doing an inflight safety video… for more in depth discussion of pelvic fractures, see the Pelvic Trauma fact sheet found here.

Donway femoral splint application: you most likely have no idea how to work this contraption… but you should! This video stars either Smurfs or The Blue Man Group for some reason… the femoral fracture fact sheet can be found here.

FAST scan: clearly, you have to complete the course to be a competent FAST scanner – but if you’re constantly looking over your consultant’s shoulder wondering what they’re looking at, maybe watching this video will make you appear more intelligent!

You are in ED when an R40 is received that a young victim of road trauma is enroute. She is hypoxaemic, tachycardic, hypotensive, and combative, and has facial, chest and limb injuries including a mangled upper limb and femoral shaft fracture.

ETA is 5 minutes.

Oh dear. What to do…

Try using the highest fidelity simulator available to you (your imagination) to plan what you might do to prepare for the arrival of this very unwell patient.

In particular, which procedures might be needed? (hint, below is a list of procedures, with internet links, which you may wish to be familiar with PRIOR to her arrival…Another good source of info for procedures is the text book by Roberts and Hedges. We have a copy at staff base, but I believe if you are on the training program this book is subsidized, so is essentially FREE to you. Get a copy from Medical Books, just down the road from AED.)

Be positive! Good luck!

Please note, we probably won’t cover all of these procedures on 30 July.